actually, last thing, the audacity to say
I was more concerned with trying to focus on things like having Moiraine and Lan's arc through the season make sense for who they both were.
when he only ever wrote *checks notes*
342 words of Moiraine POV
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Go for the fucking jugular Sarah
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Brandon, YOU played fast and loose with the magic system. You’re the one who made Androl’s Gateways, the two-way telepathic bond, changed the Warder bond, “it’s just a weave” and Perrin’s dreamworlding in general, Hinderstap, turned the dagger sickness into a virus (???)
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the funniest thing about Graendal isn't the psychologist part, the funniest thing about Graendal is the noted ascetic part (and the "world's fucked, guess I'll try out hedonism" part)
this woman was celebrating Tits Out Tuesday every day of the week within a decade of the Bore being drilled
the funniest thing about Graendal isn't the psychologist part, the funniest thing about Graendal is the noted ascetic part (and the "world's fucked, guess I'll try out hedonism" part)
oh no birgitte's been sitting in TAR while lanfear plays with her food, she's gotta be laughing her ass off at rand even more than usual
looks at username, looks at tgh ch 47, glares at 2x08
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spoilers for ep7 below the cut, beware that I discuss power balances, abuse and assault with book spoilers. I mostly discuss siuan, moiraine, rand, lan and elaida.
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long dead fucking stare at siuan wanting.....a lil hut to play domesticity in?
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if someone tells me to WAFO again I'm going to scream like I have been watching as they've systematically taken 90% of Siuan's book scenes and given them to other characters and then assigned her the book actions of the woman who tortured her.
RAFO/WAFO isn't "maybe they're going to claw back every single choice they've made about a character over two seasons"
also like the blatant racism and colorism has literally been present from the very first episode. padan fain!! dana!! kerene!!! valda!!! like "trust the showrunners" my sibling in light i am trusting them to make the same choices they have been making since. day. one.
if someone tells me to WAFO again I'm going to scream like I have been watching as they've systematically taken 90% of Siuan's book scenes and given them to other characters and then assigned her the book actions of the woman who tortured her.
RAFO/WAFO isn't "maybe they're going to claw back every single choice they've made about a character over two seasons"
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I'm sorry but I'm feeling so frustrated and upset with what they've done with Siuan's character.
YES, it's an adaptation. AND YES, adaptations change things.
BUT the show has made changes to Siuan's character that are FUNDAMENTALLY opposed to her character in the books, and often the EXACT OPPOSITE decision that she made in the books.
- They gave Siuan's scene about a sword of air not being much use to Liandrin, and have her use blades of air to defend herself-- which causes her to immediately lose when face to face with Lanfear. She literally makes the mistake that she warns against in the books.
- In the books, she lets Rand go and trusts the pattern and is deposed and stilled for it. She undermines Tower norms and risks everything for it. In the show, she scoffs at Moiraine's trust in fate and tries to cage Rand because it's Tower law. Literally the opposite of her attitude and actions under almost exactly the same circumstances.
- She controls Moiraine with the oath. Setting aside the fact that they completely brushed aside the sacred way in which (non-BA) Aes Sedai view the oaths (and the fact that it took a hunt for the Black Ajah to do any sort of experimentation with it). It also is diametrically opposed to the way that Siuan and Moiraine trust each other to do their part in preparation for the Last Battle in the books.
AND in case of the last two points, do they remind you of anyone? Someone who was in direct opposition to Siuan and the choices she made? They literally made her Elaida. Elaida wanted to trap Rand and control him. Elaida wanted to have Sisters swear a personal oath to her. What is the point of this?
An adaptation can make changes, of course, but you have to weigh the changes you make in plot and characterization and choose carefully. Characterization is especially delicate. People can tolerate and enjoy the same characters being put in different situations (see AU fanfictions) but when you change who the character is at their core, people get rightfully frustrated that you put the name of their beloved character on a different person (see reactions to OOC).
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it's siuan using the fourth oath to compel moiraine, out of all things, that's getting me. even over the fact that books make it clear that mind control of that kind of is akin to assualt and siuan very specifically speaks out against aes sedai ever doing that but EVEN OVER THAT
the one thing siuan feels most passionately about is the three oaths, she makes one of the most passionate and moving speeches in the books about how it is the three oaths that make Aes Sedai Aes Sedai, and not just a random group of channelers. in that passionate speech, siuan shows why elaida asking for a fourth oath of personal loyalty was utterly against everything the Tower should stand for. in that speech, siuan shows why she deserved the mettle of Amyrlin Seat, at least for a time, and why elaida didn't.
so of course, the show has the siuan make use of a fourth use of personal loyalty. of course they had her do the the one thing that she'd never have done, the one thing that differentiated her from elaida. of course.
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tfw you thought you were bae's one and only but she out here skinning other guys :(
also either she re-dressed him after she skinned him or she applied her knowledge of how to take off her bra without taking off her shirt to the task of removing a man's skin intact while leaving him fully clothed
RJ, bb, wtf were you doing
Think of all the time she had to spend practicing
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Anonymous asked:
Mesaana has a child army??
dude, pal, buddy, AoL Mesaana was like supreme head of the Shayol Ghul District School Board. My girl's application for research funding got rejected and they stuck her teaching the freshman classes instead. In my experience of being subjected to all manner of hellish content when marking lab reports, it's no wonder she immediately went 'fuck this shit I'm out' and turned to the Shadow and an open position in administration.
she then developed curricula that emphasized spying and snitching, mob violence, domestic terrorism, assassination, and execution. you know, the usual primary school subjects. she took her legions of radicalized child soldiers, pointed them at the institutions that had shunned her, and ordered annihilation. Mesaana's Children complied, and their rampages rivalled the male Aes Sedai for destructive prowess.
the show takes Sanderson's glorification of Warders as gospel truth and it shows (derogatory)
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"I have to remember her name, not the name they've put on her. She's Ryma, and she's Yellow Ajah, and she has fought them as long and as hard as she could. It is no fault of hers that she hasn't the strength left to fight any longer.'"
-The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
Watching that was horrifying, so I had to put this up.